Text of Professor Maurice Bloch's text: Where did anthropology Go? Or The need for "Human Nature"
... surprised her most was the hostility she perceived, caused, not only by the suggestion that cultural social anthropologists were interested in simple exotic societies, but even more by the idea that they might be interested in formulating and answering general questions about the nature of the human ...
... surprised her most was the hostility she perceived, caused, not only by the suggestion that cultural social anthropologists were interested in simple exotic societies, but even more by the idea that they might be interested in formulating and answering general questions about the nature of the human ...
Functionalist perspectives in anthropology
... thought himself as a leader of the revolutionary motion in anthropology and there is no doubt that he didn’t mean by this motion anything else than Functionalism. With all the problems that this concept brings. Just for illustration what I mean by this problem, lets have a look on the Radcliffe-Brow ...
... thought himself as a leader of the revolutionary motion in anthropology and there is no doubt that he didn’t mean by this motion anything else than Functionalism. With all the problems that this concept brings. Just for illustration what I mean by this problem, lets have a look on the Radcliffe-Brow ...
Seeking an Understanding of School Culture: Using Theory
... the reform to the At-Risk Steering Committee. The teachers and classified staff on the School Improvement Team had been elected by their peers to represent them in areas such as determining and planning implementation of the school goals. Although the team members were generally supportive of the sc ...
... the reform to the At-Risk Steering Committee. The teachers and classified staff on the School Improvement Team had been elected by their peers to represent them in areas such as determining and planning implementation of the school goals. Although the team members were generally supportive of the sc ...
Overcoming the division between anthropology `at home`
... nicely, but more basically of the research questions asked and the kinds of collaboration initiated in the first place. - In your research there is a shift from studying ‘ordinary people’, to studying ‘people with power, including academics’. This exacerbates some challenges regarding ‘the ...
... nicely, but more basically of the research questions asked and the kinds of collaboration initiated in the first place. - In your research there is a shift from studying ‘ordinary people’, to studying ‘people with power, including academics’. This exacerbates some challenges regarding ‘the ...
Notes on the “Historical Turn” and the Uses of Theory
... question, it would seem, is what framework of historical process is guiding the writing of history. Ignoring the question does not leave it unanswered, except at the expense of coherence and comprehension. Considering the historical turn is also marked by a desire to secure historical writing as a s ...
... question, it would seem, is what framework of historical process is guiding the writing of history. Ignoring the question does not leave it unanswered, except at the expense of coherence and comprehension. Considering the historical turn is also marked by a desire to secure historical writing as a s ...
Notes on the “Historical Turn” and the Uses of Theory by Eric
... question, it would seem, is what framework of historical process is guiding the writing of history. Ignoring the question does not leave it unanswered, except at the expense of coherence and comprehension. Considering the historical turn is also marked by a desire to secure historical writing as a s ...
... question, it would seem, is what framework of historical process is guiding the writing of history. Ignoring the question does not leave it unanswered, except at the expense of coherence and comprehension. Considering the historical turn is also marked by a desire to secure historical writing as a s ...
1 ANTH 2: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Matthew Wolf
... Among the social sciences, cultural anthropology stands out for its longstanding focus on the effects of globalization, the local changes brought about through the global contact between societies and individuals, and the robust description of the life experiences of people across society, from the ...
... Among the social sciences, cultural anthropology stands out for its longstanding focus on the effects of globalization, the local changes brought about through the global contact between societies and individuals, and the robust description of the life experiences of people across society, from the ...
Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture1
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
key concepts in the social sciences
... from human beings, a faceless thing that nevertheless influences and constrains our actions and thoughts. Hence we may say, ‘society today forces women to forever strive to be thinner’, or we may explain a fistfight between two young boys with the words, ‘but society allows, even expects, men to be ...
... from human beings, a faceless thing that nevertheless influences and constrains our actions and thoughts. Hence we may say, ‘society today forces women to forever strive to be thinner’, or we may explain a fistfight between two young boys with the words, ‘but society allows, even expects, men to be ...
Sociology
... the basic needs of society • The family, the most universal social institution, takes responsibility for raising the young and teaching them accepted norms and values. • The economic institution organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. • The political institutio ...
... the basic needs of society • The family, the most universal social institution, takes responsibility for raising the young and teaching them accepted norms and values. • The economic institution organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. • The political institutio ...
Museums and Ethnological Research.
... and problems are closest to traditional ethnology and who will find it an essential aid in archaeological interpretation. In any event, museums can perform a vital service to anthropology by developing systematic programs aimed at completing the ethnographic coverage of the world's peoples. It would ...
... and problems are closest to traditional ethnology and who will find it an essential aid in archaeological interpretation. In any event, museums can perform a vital service to anthropology by developing systematic programs aimed at completing the ethnographic coverage of the world's peoples. It would ...
BA in Anthropology
... Why study anthropology? Through the study of culture, anthropology offers students a set of tools and skills that help make sense of how human difference across both time and space is simultaneously preserved and threatened within an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Archaeological a ...
... Why study anthropology? Through the study of culture, anthropology offers students a set of tools and skills that help make sense of how human difference across both time and space is simultaneously preserved and threatened within an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Archaeological a ...
Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin
... then just mushes these together under the rubric of culture; there is no theory of culture. I pick on Phinney, but this holds true for almost everyone else who writes about what people do, think and feel and connect those individual acts and cognitions to culture. There are probably few if any cultu ...
... then just mushes these together under the rubric of culture; there is no theory of culture. I pick on Phinney, but this holds true for almost everyone else who writes about what people do, think and feel and connect those individual acts and cognitions to culture. There are probably few if any cultu ...
1 Jan Kubik Rutgers University BEYOND POLITICAL CULTURE
... class) in a political event, phenomenon or process. It has to utilize at least two theoretical approaches discussed in class. ...
... class) in a political event, phenomenon or process. It has to utilize at least two theoretical approaches discussed in class. ...
Interdisciplinariteit in jeugdhulpverlening en
... cohesive interdisciplinary components. He worked as an occupational therapist with groups of adolescents who were admitted briefly (three to twelve months) to the psychiatric department of a military hospital that also admitted citizen patients. From this location/position he studied, as a cultural ...
... cohesive interdisciplinary components. He worked as an occupational therapist with groups of adolescents who were admitted briefly (three to twelve months) to the psychiatric department of a military hospital that also admitted citizen patients. From this location/position he studied, as a cultural ...
Writing Culture from Within - Institute of Physics, Amsterdam
... the naive viewpoint of a total stranger' (1982:24). To what extent does his ob intimate knowledge of and identification with one's servation hold true? Does research group yield a deeper understanding and a more thorough ethnography? Or does an inside view inhibit the perception of familiar socio-cu ...
... the naive viewpoint of a total stranger' (1982:24). To what extent does his ob intimate knowledge of and identification with one's servation hold true? Does research group yield a deeper understanding and a more thorough ethnography? Or does an inside view inhibit the perception of familiar socio-cu ...
The Impact of Culture on Consumer Behaviour
... Behaviour. A quantitative approach based on a survey was adopted with data being collected in Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. Overall, results lend support to a proposed conceptual framework for understanding Consumer Behaviour that is derived from understanding the consumer throug ...
... Behaviour. A quantitative approach based on a survey was adopted with data being collected in Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. Overall, results lend support to a proposed conceptual framework for understanding Consumer Behaviour that is derived from understanding the consumer throug ...
FRANZ BOAS AND BRONISLAW MALINOWSKY: A CONTRAST
... 2000:29). Malinowski saw the reconstruction of history as a waste of time, and that the only way to properly explain a culture was to not only live among them, but also to participate in all daily activities. Through this participant observation an outsider (the anthropologist) could carry out an un ...
... 2000:29). Malinowski saw the reconstruction of history as a waste of time, and that the only way to properly explain a culture was to not only live among them, but also to participate in all daily activities. Through this participant observation an outsider (the anthropologist) could carry out an un ...
Cultural Anthropology Study Guide
... 3. What is the relative influence of cultural rules and biology for the definition of kinship classification? What are some ethnographic examples? 4. How are sex and age important in determining the structure of kinship relationships? What are some ethnographic examples? 5. What do descent systems d ...
... 3. What is the relative influence of cultural rules and biology for the definition of kinship classification? What are some ethnographic examples? 4. How are sex and age important in determining the structure of kinship relationships? What are some ethnographic examples? 5. What do descent systems d ...
Between Culture and Biology - Assets
... to account for human differences; and I have argued in some detail elsewhere (Jahoda, 1993) that its meaning tended to be close to what we know as ‘culture’. This comes out clearly in a passage from Descartes (1596–1650), who also was one of the first to put forward a biological approach to psycholo ...
... to account for human differences; and I have argued in some detail elsewhere (Jahoda, 1993) that its meaning tended to be close to what we know as ‘culture’. This comes out clearly in a passage from Descartes (1596–1650), who also was one of the first to put forward a biological approach to psycholo ...
Overview of Nineteenth
... Historical Particularism claims that each society has its own unique historical development and must be understood based on its own specific cultural and environmental context, especially its historical process. Historical Particularists criticized the theory of the Nineteenth-century Evolutionism a ...
... Historical Particularism claims that each society has its own unique historical development and must be understood based on its own specific cultural and environmental context, especially its historical process. Historical Particularists criticized the theory of the Nineteenth-century Evolutionism a ...
theories
... Historical Particularism claims that each society has its own unique historical development and must be understood based on its own specific cultural and environmental context, especially its historical process. Historical Particularists criticized the theory of the Nineteenth-century Evolutionism a ...
... Historical Particularism claims that each society has its own unique historical development and must be understood based on its own specific cultural and environmental context, especially its historical process. Historical Particularists criticized the theory of the Nineteenth-century Evolutionism a ...
Accounting / Aerospace / Anthropology • Courses
... on the broad level of human evolution and the more specific level of directed change. Emphasis is placed on gaining an understanding of the interactional and multicultural aspects of directed culture change in all human groups. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010 or consent of department. 4800. Anthropologic ...
... on the broad level of human evolution and the more specific level of directed change. Emphasis is placed on gaining an understanding of the interactional and multicultural aspects of directed culture change in all human groups. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010 or consent of department. 4800. Anthropologic ...
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...